Help Unsolicited Applications Start

[octavianb]

A number of applications in my Nexus One keep automatically start without request. I keep close them but they come back. They don't have a setting indicating the activation choice (like the email for example) so it must be the OS activating them based on a default schedule. One of the biggest offender is the the Amazon application.

I would not care too much about this except they drain the power from the battery and I hate that when I am on the road.

Does anybody know where the scheduler is and how can be accessed?

Thanks,

 

[Frisco]

Welcome to the forums, octavianb.

Some stock apps and widgets have a service setting in the "running services" area of the applications menu: menu > settings > applications > running services.

You can tap the service you don't want running and it will stop, for that session... meaning those stopped services will restart upon reboot, or even sooner if they are configured to restart in the app or widget setting itself.

Rooting the device enables the user to permanently remove many of those stock apps, widgets and services. Here is the Nexus One root guide in these forums:

http://androidforums.com/nexus-all-...xus-one-root-guide-updated-oct-14-2010-a.html

 

[Roze]

A number of applications in my Nexus One keep automatically start without request. I keep close them but they come back. They don't have a setting indicating the activation choice (like the email for example) so it must be the OS activating them based on a default schedule. One of the biggest offender is the the Amazon application.

I would not care too much about this except they drain the power from the battery and I hate that when I am on the road.

Does anybody know where the scheduler is and how can be accessed?

Thanks,

What are the other applications you are killing?


Amazon is bloody annoying but it's just open and on standby and in the background. I've been measuring CPU usage of Amazon and it's at 0%, so it's not actively taking up any resources unless you open it up. It's really annoying but it's not the 'biggest offender'.

If you have widgets on your homescreen and you try to kill the applciation because it's a running service, the application will start up again to support the widget (or something like that).

You can check your battery usage on the phone and see what's really eatign up your battery. It shows battery usage over 0.5% which is rounded to 1%. If you want more detail, you can dial *#*#4636#*#*
There are apps out on the market that will actually graph out the info in there, example SystemPanel (it also has a task killer)

As Frisco said, if the stock app has a cycle loop of when to start, if you kill it, it will restart again. This ends up eating up more recourses on your phone.